pal|let

pal|let
pal|let1 «PAL iht», noun.
a bed of straw, or any other small or poor bed: »

a humble pallet. A pallet of mats (Washington Irving).

╂[< Old French paillet < paille straw < Latin palea straw, chaff]
pal|let2 «PAL iht», noun.
1. a flat blade used by potters and others for shaping their work.
2. an artist's pallette.
3. a) a projection on a pawl, that engages with a ratchet wheel. b) any one of the projections in the escapement of a watch, clock, or other mechanism, that alternately catch and release the notches of the wheels.
4. a low, portable platform on which loads are stacked to keep them off the ground in storage and to make the entire stack, including the pallet, easy to pick up, as by a fork lift, for handling.
5. a flat brush for taking up gold leaf.
╂[earlier variant of palette]

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